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tail-coverts light vermilion red or dull geranium red, with dusky shaft- 

 streaks and margined terminally (more or less distinctly) with bluish 

 or greenish ; under wing-coverts bluish green, sometimes tipped with 

 blue; under primary coverts and under surface of remiges bluish 

 green (malachite), the primaries with a broad stripe of slate-black 

 along shaft; bill dull light greenish yellow (m life), the tip of maxilla 

 whitish; cere light ochraceous-brown; naked orbital space brick red; 

 iris brown; feet deep ochraceous-yellow ; "^ length (skms), 220-247 

 (234); wing, 169-180.5 (175.8); tail, 67-79.5 (73.7); cuhnen, 24-26.5 

 (24.9); tarsus, 18-19.5 (18.7); outer anterior toe, 22-24.5 (23.5).'' 



Adult female. — Similar to the adult male, but distinctly duller in 

 color, the blue of head, chest, and breast much less pronounced, 

 usually confined to bars on chest (and there much duller) the bars 

 narrower and never (?) continued to abdomen; length (skins), 

 215-245 (230); wmg, 166-177.5 (172.9); tail, 67.5-74 (70.8); cuhnen 

 22-24 (23.5); tarsus, 18-19 (18.5); outer anterior toe, 22.5-23.5 

 (23.1).'= 



Immature m^ale. — Similar to adult female. 



Young. — Forehead and crown dull green, the feathers of the former 

 edged with dull white, those of the latter tipped with light paris green; 

 a dull white supraloral spot or broad streak; rest of head, together 

 with neck (except tliroat) dull green (nearly bice green), the chest and 

 other under parts similar but slightly paler; chin and throat dull 

 white, with narrow shaft-streaks of dusky; under tail-coverts light 

 yellowish green medially (broadly) and terminally with an elongated 

 spot of pale red on each web; lesser wing-coverts nearly uniform oil 

 green; otherwise essentially as in adults. 



Southeastern Mexico, in States of Vera Cruz (Mirador; Cordova; 

 Potrero, near Cordova; Orizaba; Motzorongo; Cuesta de Misantla), 



o Fresh colors of specimens shot by the author in Costa Rica. According to Rich- 

 mond (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus., xAd, p. 519) the iris is orange, thus indicating considerable 

 variation . 



^ Tliirteen specimens. 



c Nine specimens. 



